Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boss" Tweed, corrupt Tammany chief of the 1860s, raised little objection when muckraking reporters prowled city hall. What the papers wrote had no meaning, Tweed liked to boast; his constituency was illiterate. The only criticism that ever bothered or threatened him, the Boss confessed, was "them damn pictures...
...been told that Harvard acts on financial, rather than moral values. So, instead of editorializing that Harvard shouldn't support a repressive, corrupt, power-thirsty dictatorship like Iran's, I'll just say this: it seems to me that Harvard would do better to address itself to events right here in Cambridge, rather than to pour money, teaching time, and professor's lives into a high-risk investment like the Reza Shah Kabir University. Carol Petsonk
...English Language" George Orwell analyzed the way in which the abstract, leaden prose in England had dulled readers' capacity for independent thought. Writing immediately after World War II, when he saw writers increasingly give themselves over to the dogmas of newly-potent ideologies, Orwell wrote that "if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. "The use of tired metaphors, excess words, Latinate nouns, meaningless, bombastic phrases--all led to a "reduced state of consciousness," which was "favorable to political conformity." Only by using concrete, original, and simple sentences could the writer let the meaning choose the word--rather than...
Wiser Men. But why had the Nixon men become so corrupt? "No individual" was to blame, said Dean. "No particular atmosphere." Instead, he blamed "power," explaining: "Ever since F.D.R., presidential power had been expanding. We took the next step. Wiser men in the ways of Washington might not have let this power go to their heads, including young men such as myself. We were corrupted in taking advantage of power. I know some people think I'm too charitable in taking this view...
...coup that occurred in September 1973." Not mentioning how insignificant the $8 million really was in relation to the Chilean effort is extremely offending. Furthermore, LeMoyne talks about money being available to bribe Chilean Congressmen into voting against Allende. But PLEASE do not insinuate that the Chilean politicians are corrupt--especially since they refused to accept the bribes (a fact which LeMoyne, of course, does not mention...